Malay Comparative and Superlative
In the Malay language, comparatives, such as ‘lebih’ (<> more) and ‘kurang’ (<> less), and superperlatives, such as ‘paling’ (<> most’) and ‘sangat’ (<> very), are said to exist with an adjective phrase, for example, ‘lebih besar’ (<> bigger), ‘kurang manis’ (<> l...
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| author | Bakar, Norsofiah Abu Yusoff, Radiah |
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| description | In the Malay language, comparatives, such as ‘lebih’ (<> more) and ‘kurang’ (<> less), and superperlatives, such as ‘paling’ (<> most’) and ‘sangat’ (<> very), are said to exist with an adjective phrase, for example, ‘lebih besar’ (<> bigger), ‘kurang manis’ (<> less sweet), ‘paling cantik’ (<> most beautiful’), and ‘sangat besar’ (<> biggest). Comparatives and superlatives in Malay are categorised as intensifiers. Comparatives and superlatives in Malay are also expressed with the use of the affixes ‘ter-’ and ‘se-’. Grammarians claim that comparatives and superlatives forms collate with adjective structure. Based on this claim, this study aims at describing the comparatives and superlatives features. The features are examined using the corpus from Korpus DBP and Corpora Collection Leipzig University. Which are then generated using Antconc. The results from Antconc show comparatives and superlatives characters and statistics. The study shows that comparatives ‘lebih’ (<> more) and ‘kurang’ (<> less) and superlatives ‘paling’ (<> most) and ‘sangat’ (<> very) forms exist with count phrase, verb phrase, and prepositional phrase. Besides, this study shows that the meanings expressed by comparatives and superlatives when combined with an adjective phrase are different from comparatives and superlatives that collocate with count phrase, verb phrase, and prepositional phrase. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-480912021-01-13T09:11:04Z http://eprints.usm.my/48091/ Malay Comparative and Superlative Bakar, Norsofiah Abu Yusoff, Radiah P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) PL5051-5497 Malayan (Indonesian) languages In the Malay language, comparatives, such as ‘lebih’ (<> more) and ‘kurang’ (<> less), and superperlatives, such as ‘paling’ (<> most’) and ‘sangat’ (<> very), are said to exist with an adjective phrase, for example, ‘lebih besar’ (<> bigger), ‘kurang manis’ (<> less sweet), ‘paling cantik’ (<> most beautiful’), and ‘sangat besar’ (<> biggest). Comparatives and superlatives in Malay are categorised as intensifiers. Comparatives and superlatives in Malay are also expressed with the use of the affixes ‘ter-’ and ‘se-’. Grammarians claim that comparatives and superlatives forms collate with adjective structure. Based on this claim, this study aims at describing the comparatives and superlatives features. The features are examined using the corpus from Korpus DBP and Corpora Collection Leipzig University. Which are then generated using Antconc. The results from Antconc show comparatives and superlatives characters and statistics. The study shows that comparatives ‘lebih’ (<> more) and ‘kurang’ (<> less) and superlatives ‘paling’ (<> most) and ‘sangat’ (<> very) forms exist with count phrase, verb phrase, and prepositional phrase. Besides, this study shows that the meanings expressed by comparatives and superlatives when combined with an adjective phrase are different from comparatives and superlatives that collocate with count phrase, verb phrase, and prepositional phrase. European Publisher 2019-10-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/48091/1/Malay%20Comparative%20and%20Superlative.pdf Bakar, Norsofiah Abu and Yusoff, Radiah (2019) Malay Comparative and Superlative. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 89. pp. 677-686. ISSN 2357-1330 https://www.europeanproceedings.com/proceedings/EpSBS/volumes/ich2019 |
| spellingShingle | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) PL5051-5497 Malayan (Indonesian) languages Bakar, Norsofiah Abu Yusoff, Radiah Malay Comparative and Superlative |
| title | Malay Comparative and Superlative |
| title_full | Malay Comparative and Superlative |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Malay Comparative and Superlative |
| title_short | Malay Comparative and Superlative |
| title_sort | malay comparative and superlative |
| topic | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) PL5051-5497 Malayan (Indonesian) languages |
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